On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: > > I also attached a copy of the program I used. I think I got it off > > the forums. Maybe some guru can improve it a little. ;-) > > Not me. Perl has been invented to generate reports from log files or > such. It is not a general purpose language, though many sysadmins > abuse it for such. > > I can't read my own perl scripts I have written three weeks ago. It > all looks like spider legs or chicken cratches to me.
Three weeks! You remember what you coded for up to three weeks but not usually longer???? Wow. You are one lucky SOB. I barely manage three DAYS lately <grin> -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
